On Friday, the UK High Court granted the American government’s appeal over the refusal to extradite Assange, opening the door for his trial in the US under the Espionage Act, even though the WikiLeaks co-founder is an Australian. A shadow of darkness is now cast for journalistic freedom all over …
Read More »Tara Reade: The shaming of sexual assault whistleblowers has to stop
When Amy Franck decided to become a whistleblower on sexual assault and sexual harassment in the United States military, she realized that it meant possibly losing her career due to the retaliation that regularly faces those who challenge and expose a broken system. However, as a survivor herself, Franck was …
Read More »Tara Reade: How Time’s Up became complicit in rape culture
In America, rape culture is institutionalized, with layers of protection for the powerful. Sexual assault and sexual harassment aren’t just about physical touching or forced sex without consent. They are also about the loss of status and career opportunities, and the isolation of and damage to the victim caused by …
Read More »‘Sex violence in US military is out of control,’ whistleblower tells Tara Reade’s RT podcast
“Violations of federal law were occurring and I was always told to shut up,” Amy Braley-Franck, former Sexual Assault Program Manager in the US military told Reade in an interview released on Friday. Braley-Franck worked all over the US and Europe, as well as in South Africa, having been charged …
Read More »Tara Reade: The reason Democrats lost is breathtakingly obvious
As someone who worked for the American Democratic Party and drank all the Kool-Aid – even giving it to others – I can tell you definitively that they do not need the Republicans to make them lose; the art of self-destruction seems embedded in the ethos of the party. The …
Read More »Tara Reade: Huma Abedin should reveal the identity of the US senator who allegedly abused her for the sake of other women
The Democrats, like all politicians, have a lot of secrets, lies, sexual misconduct, corruption, misdealing, you name it, yet the party still claims to occupy the moral high ground publicly, a falsehood perpetuated by their commissars in the corporate press. But, every once in a while, one of them gets …
Read More »Trauma expert explains why he finds Tara Reade’s story credible, in her new RT podcast
“He can’t stop,” Zenkus told Reade in their discussion about the US president, titled ‘The Politics of Trauma’. “I think these behaviors are predatory.” The alleged “behaviors” Zenkus refers to have been highlighted heavily by both himself and ‘Politics of Survival’ host Reade, who accused Biden of sexually assaulting her …
Read More »Tara Reade: Why exactly are Trump’s records from January fair game but Biden’s decades-old Senate files not?
The Roman Empire had its own megalomaniacs and the United States is no different. Congress and the White House are trying to hold on to every ounce of profit and power squeezed from its citizens’ labors in a manner not dissimilar to Caesar. As such, I have no interest in …
Read More »Tara Reade: American Crime Story: Impeachment perfectly captures the sordid interplay of sex, power, and politics in Washington
American Crime Story: Impeachment is like American fast food; tasty, quick and probably not very good for you. There is sex and politics delivered in a palatable PG 13 sort of way. It is a docudrama, where the actual events are as melodramatic as they were in the 1990’s, when …
Read More »Tara Reade: The Pandora Papers are just a distraction from America’s own corrupt and broken tax system
The release of the Pandora Papers, which brag of leaks exposing the somewhat ‘artistic’ financial practices of the rich and powerful, has once again seen the media take aim at Vladimir Putin. The West’s obsession with the Russian president’s private life is on full, torrid display. His name and picture …
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